Private Joseph Ford

Army Number : 2284

Battalion : 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Chapel-en-Le-Frith, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph and Margaret Ford, of Chapel Milton, Chapel-en-Le-Frith; Husband of Edith Throniley Ford, of Roe Buck Place, Chapel-en-Le-Frith. He was a labourer prior to enlisting 1st September 1914 at Chapel-en-Le-Frith. He died, 4th July 1915, aged 30, at 43rd Field Ambulance, from wounds received whilst out on a working party near Ypres, Belgium.

Buried: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium. Enclosure No.2 Plot 4. Row B. Grave 62.

Private Joseph Ford is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Chapel-en-Le-Frith War Memorial, Chapel-en-Le-Frith, Derbyshire.